The Big Book of Jewish Humor Author:William Novak (Editor), Moshe Waldoks (Editor) Two rival businessmen meet in the Warsaw train station. "Where are you going?" says the first man. — "To Minsk," says the second. — "To Minsk, eh? What a nerve you have! I know you're telling me you're going to Minsk because you want me to think that you're really going to Pinsk. But it so happens that I know y... more »ou really are going to Minsk. So why are you lying to me?"
Four men are walking in the desert.
The German says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have a beer."
The Italian says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have wine."
The Mexican says, "I'm tired and thirsty.
I must have tequila."
The Jew says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have diabetes."
On account of a hat / Sholom Aleichem --
The meaning of life / Stanley Elkin --
Jewish poker / Ephraim Kishon --
Shabbas nachamu / Isaac Babel --
Letters to Einstein / Philip Roth --
The whore of mensa / Woody Allen --
The Babylonian Talmud / Eliezer ben Tam --
Jewish and goyish / Lenny Bruce --
The jewbird / Bernard Malamud --
The purple gang / Max Apple --
The dance of Genghis cohn / Romain Gary --
Floods give us pleasure / Wallace Marhfield --
Shikses and other goyim / Philip Roth --
Antenna on the roof / Frank Jacobs --
The man who exploded / Elliot E. Cohen --
Doonesbury / G.B. Trudeau --
A Montrealer seder / Elan Dresher, Norbert Hornstein, and J. Lipa Roth --
Let us now claim famous men / Ralph Schoenstein --
The lecture / Abraham Shulman --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jewish humanitarian / Gerald Sussman --
Screw the Jews / Paul Jacobs --
Mel Brooks is God / Gerald Sussman --
Tales of the American masters / Gary Epstein --
There's more ways than one to kill a joke / Dan Ben-Amotz --
Tel Aviv & Jerusalem / Yoram Matmor --
Covering the Yom Kippur war / Chaim Bermant --
The Jerusalem roast / Gary Rosenblatt --
Mark Twain and Sholom Aleichem / Edward Field --
Ferry tale from Romplesealskin for Nize baby wot ate opp all de crembarry suss / Milt Gross --
Mr. Kaplans white banner / Leo Rosten --
Dr. Klockenmeyer / Neil Simon --
Groucho and Chico make a deal / George S. Kaufman, and Morrie Ryskind --
Waiting for Santy / S.J Perelman --
The Schnorrer's apprentice / Israel Zangwill --
Bargaining / Sam Levenson --
Thoughts about forty cents / Moishe Nadir --
Rabbis / Max Shulman --
Hasidic tales, with a guide to their interpretation by the noted scholar / Woody Allen --